Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 22:54 GMT+7
A security guard has his nasal swab collected for COVID-19 tests in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo: Thu Hien / Tuoi Tre
A COVID-19 patient in Ho Chi Minh City has been found carrying a coronavirus variant that is in circulation in northern Vietnam and taking a toll on India, where hundreds of thousands of cases have been announced daily over the past weeks.
Genome sequencing results showed that 35-year-old N.Q.N., who was confirmed by the Ministry of Health as a coronavirus case in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, had been infected with the